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Booming e-commerce in Indonesia has prompted developers to aggressively build industrial parks and warehouses. According to the e-Conomy SEA 2024 report, the e-commerce business is expected to be the largest contributor to Indonesia's digital economy in 2024, estimated at 65 billion...

Indonesia-China relations continue to heat up in the tech sector, as a delegation from Nanning, capital of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has just concluded an intensive visit to Indonesia aimed at deepening cooperation in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the digital economy. The two sides held...

On April 3, Thousand Islands Enterprise Services and XTransfer, a financial service platform focusing on B2B cross-border trade collection and payment, held a cooperation signing ceremony in Guangzhou. For a long time, Chinese enterprises doing business in Indonesia often face complicated exchange processes, scrutiny...

The Batang Industrial Park in Central Java, formerly known as the Batang Integrated Industrial Zone, was once a wilderness.It began operations in 2022 and was upgraded to a special economic zone in 2025. The Indonesian government expects to use this to narrow the economic gap with its neighbors, promote industrialization, and enhance international competitiveness...

Indonesia's durian industry is edging closer to entering the lucrative Chinese market, with a Chinese official reviewing this in March as part of an agreement. Officials from China's General Administration of Customs traveled to Indonesia to assess local durian plantations and packaging...

2025 Indonesia's established garlic importers have not been given import quotas, and they have to buy import quotas from shell companies allegedly controlled by a few privileged importers, at an additional cost of 7,000 to 8,000 rupiah per kilogram. As Pusbarindo member Jay...

The Coordinating Minister for Economy received a visit from the Executive Vice President of LG Chem Advanced Materials and his delegation at the office of the Coordinating Minister for Economy, where they discussed the opportunities and challenges in the field of electric vehicles, as well as LG Chem's cooperation and investment in Indonesia...

The KEK Industropolis Batang Special Economic Zone (KEK Industropolis Batang) in Central Java province has partnered with China State Construction Group Corporation (CSCEC) to develop an industrial park through the Twin Country Twin Park (TCTP) project. In the Batang Industropolis Economic...

Indonesia is committed to strengthening its textile industry with a number of initiatives. The Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs emphasized that the textile and textile products industry is a huge contributor to the country's economy, with exports exceeding US$2 billion and providing nearly 4 million jobs, but there is still a need to improve the licensing phase...

Indonesia plans to build six new special economic zones (SEZs), five of which are located in Sidoarjo, East Java; East Kutai, East Kalimantan; Bulungan, North Kalimantan; and Subang, West Java.The Chief Economy Minister said that China...